Dolna Bela Crkva

Dolna Bela Crkva has an Orthodox ethnic Macedonian majority, with a significant Muslim Albanian Sunni and Bektashi minority, of whom the latter are known locally as Kolonjarë.^[3][4] Sunni Albanians in Dolna Bela Crkva traditionally highlighted their religious identity over a linguistic one having closer economic and social relations with Turks and Macedonian Muslims in the region and being distant from Orthodox Macedonians.^[4] Over time these differences have disappeared through intermarriage, closer communal and cultural relations with Bektashi and other Sunni Prespa Albanian communities in the region.^[4]

As of the 2021 census, Dolna Bela Crkva had 179 residents.^[5]

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  Sign on main road hailing entrance into Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Architecture of Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Dolna Bela Crkva village centre
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  Contemporary (left) and traditional (right) architecture of Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Streetscape in part of Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Orthodox church of Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Old village well (built 1888)
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  Cut firewood in a field of Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Fields of Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Apple orchard in Dolna Bela Crkva
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  Dolna Bela Crkva river
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  Fields of Dolna Bela Crkva

41°02′N 21°01′E / 41.033°N 21.017°E / 41.033; 21.017